Archive for December, 2008
The Zeitgeist Movement
I have been a supporter of The Zeitgeist Movement, so here is a post with a brief introduction and some online resources regarding the movement.
The Zeitgeist Movement Official Website:
http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/
Zeitgeist Movie Website:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
Project Venus:
http://www.thevenusproject.com/
The Zeitgeist Movement IRC server:
thezeitgeistmovement.ath.cx
Zeitgeist The Movie
Zeitgeist: Addendum
Merb merged into Rails 3
Over the Christmas break, a huge announcement was released by Rails and Merb teams. They are merging their efforts and hopefully a great new web framework will emerge.
Original Ruby on Rails team announcement:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/12/23/merb-gets-merged-into-rails-3
Original Merb team announcement:
http://yehudakatz.com/2008/12/23/rails-and-merb-merge/
This is very exciting and I am especially happy that these two open source projects are choosing to coorporate instead of to compete. 2009 will be a very exciting year in this space.
Ugrading Ruby On Rails to 2.2.2 on Ubuntu Hardy 8.10
I’ve decided to get the latest Ruby on Rails installed on my development laptop.
As usual I first updated the gem system by running:
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sudo gem update –system
This promptly told me there was nothing to update (I had version 1.2.0 installed)
Finally I installed the latest Ruby on Rails framework by running
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sudo gem install rails
Rails installed ok and I even got to create a new application. When I went to start the server by running
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script/server
I got the following error:
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Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.1 (you have 1.2.0). Please `gem update –system` and try again.
Now that was the first thing I did and I got told there was nothing to update. Well this is a bug in ruby gems, and to get around it do the following:
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# this downloads the latest gems update package
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sudo gem install rubygems-update
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# this actually performs the update
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sudo update_rubygems
That did it for me, and so am happily running Ruby on Rails 2.2.2
.NET MVC Framework and new Open Source CMS
Over last few weeks I’ve been looking into Microsoft’s attempt to implement a more straight forward and well structured web development environment, mainly the ASP.NET MVC framework. I have always been a huge fan of MVC style frameworks (most notably Ruby on Rails). What makes Ruby on Rails fantastic is not just the implementation of MVC pattern but the programming language Ruby.
One of the latest releases from Microsoft ecosystem is Oxite, a open source CMS based on MVC framework. Oxite is basically a blog engine that runs Mix Online, so it has real world credentials.
